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U.S.surgeon to see shah
PANAMA CITY, Panama ? Framed American
surgeon Michael DeBakey will fly to Panama to
examine Shah Mohannad Reza Pahlavi and will
remove his spleen if he decides the operation is
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Although the Shah's personal physician had said the
operation was needed, DeBakey's spokesman said
Wednesday in Houston, Texas, that "no one is committed
to surgery. They first will have to examine the
shah."
The shah's New York physician, Dr. Benjamin Kean,
siuu earner mat rie examinea me aeposea monarcn last
week in Panama and that his spleen was inflamed,
enlarged and probably associated with a tumor.
Alternate games meeting
LONDON ?The United States, Britain and Australia
are organizing a meeting for "friendly governments"
next Monday to discuss holding alternative games to
the Moscow Olympics.
The Foreign Office said yesterday that arrangements
are still being made, but the conference will be held on
Monday.
Sources said possible sites for the meeting are
Ixjndon or Geneva.
It was not known how many other countries had
been invited to attend.
"We must see whether alternative games can be
arranged," the Foreign Office spokesman said.
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every athlete. It is only right and fair that athletes
should have the chance to compete on some sort of
alternative event or comparable standard to those of
the Olympics."
Disease linked to hotel
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British doctors for help in trying to track down guests
who stayed at a hotel in this central English city where
an outbreak of Legionnaires Disease has been reported.
"We want to trace anyone whas has stayed in the
hotel in the past year. They could be suffering from the
disease, but the symptons may not be recognized,"
said Dr. N.S. Galbraith, chief of the government's
Communicable Disease Surveillance Center, which
traced the disease to the 50-room Strathclyde Hotel.
The Hotel, patronized mainly by businessmen, was
temporarily closed on Wednesday. The government
team was called in last April after a Liverpool
businessman contracted the disease, following a stay
at the hotel. 1 he man has since recovered.
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Prisioners get support
MONROE, La. ?Charging that the Iranians jailed
here were arrested without just cause and arc being
treated cruelly, an Iranian diplomat says he cannot
rule out some impact on the American hostages in
Tehran.
Ali Asghar Agah, charge d'affaires of the Iranian
Embassy in Washington, visited the students in their
cells for five hours Wednesday.
"What I have seen today here certainly is not what I
was expecting...our students certainly have suffered
the past seven days tremendously," Agah said.
While he would not say if the jailing would influence
negotiaitons for the release of the American hostages,
he couldn't rule out that possibility.
"I don't know. It might. The situation is so delicate,
you can make all kinds of speculation, he said. "Lets
not talk about that."
Of the 48 Iranians arrested Thursday, 41 remain.in
jail in the seventh day of a hunger strike, three were
hospitalized and four had been released on bond.
Doctors enter airlock
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; the Three Mile Island reactor building airlock
yesterday to make sure it was safe for two engineers to
follow?becoming the first persons to enter the area
since it was sealed a year ago after the nation's worst
commercial nuclear accident.
After three days of atmospheric venting at the
crippled nuclear power plant, the health physicists
donned protective gear and carried monitoring devices
into the 9 -by-12-foot airlock at 9:30 a.m.
"They will survey the airlock to make sure it is safe
for the engineers," said plant spokesman Sandy Folon.
He said it takes about 10 minutes for the health
workers tn take raHintinn samnW
Big bucks in toilet seat
TAMA, Iowa ?Whoever stole the toilet seat that was
bolted to the wall in the Thomas Co. display room may
be sitting on a lot of money now.
Molded into the clear Lucite seat were valuable coins,
including some uncirculated silver ones dating from
before 1964, police said.
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value is now about $400.
The seat was the only item discovered missing
Monday morning after a break-in at the plumbing and
heating supply and appliance company in downtown
Tama.
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House Speaker resigns
COLUMBIA ?House Speaker Rex L. Carter's announcement
that he is resigning from the South
Carolina General Assembly has set off a mad scramble
for the No 9. snot
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So far, there are only two announced candidates for
speaker ? Rep. John G. Fielder, D-Calhoun, and
Speaker Pro Tem Ramon Schwartz, D-Sumter. But the
field for Schwartz's job includes no less than five
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Itep. Michael Daniel, D-Cherokee, issued a statement
| late Wednesday afternoon that he is a candidate for
Speaker Pro Tern. Others reportedly expressing interest
in the post include Democratic Reos. Robert
; Woods, a black from Charleston ; Jean Toal of Richland
County; Sterling Anderson of Spartanburg, and Robert
Mcl^ellan of Oconee.
'Junk food' sales limited
COLUMBIA ?Public schools in South Carolina will
have to limit the sale of certain types of "junk foods" by
July 1 to be in compliance with new federal
regulations.
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that the guidelines regulate the sale of foods sold in
competition with meals served in school breakfast and
lunch programs.
The director of the Office of Food Services, Vivian
Pilant, said the regulations, passed by Congress in
1977, ban the sale of foods identified as of minimal
nutritional value between the beginning of the school
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Fbods in the restricted categories include sodas,
chewing gum, certain candies, and water ices.
bportscaster to leave
LANCASTER ? Sportscaster Joe Petty is known to
thousands across the state as host of a talk show with
former USC basketball coach FYank McGuire.
But few know that he's also a self-described
"recovering alcoholic" and works with other alcoholics
at state prisons and other places.
"The way I've been able to help maintain mv
sobriety more than anything else is by working with '
other alcoholics,"he said.
Now he plans to leave his job at WIS-TV in Columbia
and start helping alcoholics full time, Petty said
Wednesday.
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Hospital as director of a new treatment program for
alcoholics.
His last broadcast will be today.
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